...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.